NVIDIA GeForce 930M
The NVIDIA GeForce 930M (sometimes also called Nvidia GeForce GT 930M) is a (lower) mid-range, DirectX 11-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2015. It is based on the last years GeForce 840M. In addition to the "normal" 25 Watt 930M, there is also a low power variant with a TDP of 12 Watt and support for DDR3 and GDDR5. The DDR3 variant should be approximately 10% slower than the 25 Watt version. The performance of the GDDR5 version is still unknown. The shader count for these low power 930M are also unknown. As the LP version is clocked only at 457 MHz + Boost it may feature more shaders (or a high Boost).
Update: The N16S-LP variant (5-12 Watt TDP, Low Power version?) will be available with GDDR5 starting in the first quarter of 2016. Later in 2016, the successor named GeForce 930MX was released that was available with GDDR5.
Architecture
Compared to Kepler, Maxwell has been optimized in several details to increase power efficiency. Smaller Streaming Multiprocessors (SMM) with only 128 ALUs (Kepler: 192) and an optimized scheduler should lead to better utilization of the shaders. Nvidia promises that a Maxwell SMM with 128 ALUs can offer 90 percent of the performance of a Kepler SMX with 192 ALUs. The 930M should feature the full GM108 with 3 SMMs (384 shader cores, 24 TMUs, and 8 ROPs due to the 64-bit interface).
Another optimization is the massively enlarged L2 cache. The larger size can process some of the memory traffic to allow for a relatively narrow memory interface without significantly reducing performance.
Similar to GM107, the GM108 supports DirectX 12 with Feature Level 11_0 only.
Performance
The performance should be a bit below an average GeForce 840M due to the slower core clock. This means that demanding games like Evolve are only playable in lowest settings. Less demanding games like F1 2014 or Fifa 15 on the other hand should run in highest settings. See gaming benchmarks below for more details.
Features
GM108 integrates the sixth generation of the PureVideo HD video engine (VP6), offering a better decoding performance for H.264 and MPEG-2 videos. Of course, VP6 supports all features of previous generations (4K support, PIP, video encoding via NVENC API). Unfortunately, HDMI 2.0 is still not supported.
Power Consumption
The power consumption of the GeForce 930M should be about 33 Watts or less. Therefore, the 930M is best suited for laptops 13 inches in size or larger. The 900M series also supports Optimus to automatically switch between an integrated graphics card and the Nvidia GPU.
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| GeForce 900M Series | |
| Codename | N16S-GM-B/S, N16S-LP |
| Architecture | Maxwell |
| Pipelines | 384 - unified |
| Core Speed | 928 - 941 (Boost) MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 64 Bit |
| Memory Type | DDR3 |
| Max. Amount of Memory | 2048 MB |
| Shared Memory | no |
| DirectX | DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0 |
| technology | 28 nm |
| Features | GPU Boost 2.0, Optimus, PhysX, CUDA, GeForce Experience, GameWorks |
| Date of Announcement | 12.03.2015 |
| Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook... |
Benchmarks
3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720
min: 5685 avg: 6271 median: 6071 (9%) max: 7808 Points
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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720
min: 8148 avg: 8373 median: 8309 (4%) max: 8684 Points
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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080
min: 1267 avg: 1300 median: 1290.5 (5%) max: 1369 Points
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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080
min: 1435 avg: 1470 median: 1460.5 (4%) max: 1527 Points
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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 5%
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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720
min: 40616 avg: 59248 median: 56647 (8%) max: 80544 Points
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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720
min: 2131 avg: 2251 median: 2247 (6%) max: 2456 points
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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720
min: 2057 avg: 2145 median: 2153 (4%) max: 2271 points
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3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +3DMark Vantage - P Result 1280x1024
7274 Points (9%)
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P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +3DMark Vantage - P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024
6557 Points (7%)
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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +11760 Points (24%)
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 1%
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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024
27.3 fps (12%)
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SPECviewperf 11
Siemens NX 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Siemens NX 1920x1080
4.1 fps (3%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 4.05 |
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Tcvis 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Tcvis 1920x1080
1.4 fps (2%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 1.35 |
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SolidWorks 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - SolidWorks 1920x1080
9 fps (11%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 8.98 |
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Pro/ENGINEER 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Pro/ENGINEER 1920x1080
2.2 fps (9%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 2.15 |
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Maya 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Maya 1920x1080
11 fps (8%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 11.03 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 -87%
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Lightwave 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Lightwave 1920x1080
19.9 fps (21%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 19.92 |
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Ensight 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Ensight 1920x1080
16.4 fps (8%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 16.36 |
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 4%
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Catia 1920x1080 +SPECviewperf 11 - Catia 1920x1080
11.8 fps (14%)
| Asus P2710JF | 4712MQ | 16384 MB | 928 / 900 MHz | 2048MB ForceWare 359.46 | 11.76 |
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Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +Cinebench R10 - Shading 32Bit
min: 5741 avg: 5875 median: 5853.5 (29%) max: 6050 Points
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Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +Cinebench R11.5 - OpenGL 64Bit
min: 24.59 avg: 36.2 median: 36.8 (22%) max: 46.4 Points
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti -1%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti -1%
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Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +Cinebench R15 - OpenGL 64Bit
min: 32.69 avg: 46.1 median: 45.4 (18%) max: 56.2 Points
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Ref. Match 64Bit +Cinebench R15 - Ref. Match 64Bit
99.6 Points (100%)
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080
114 fps (1%)
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T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16
60 fps (2%)
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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen
60.5 fps (11%)
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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Onscreen OGL on screen
59.2 fps (16%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only
372 Samples/s (7%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only
694 Samples/s (6%)
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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600
1454 Points (5%)
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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